Tag-holding clip.



' L. MYERS.

TAG HOLDING CLIP. APPLICATION FILED mm: 7 1909.

Patented May 16, 1911.

LEOPOLD MYERS, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

. TAGJHOLDING CLIP.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented May 16, 1911.

Application filed .Tune 7, 1909. Serial No. 500,709.

ham, England, steel-pen manufacturer, have invented" new and usefulImprovements in Tag-Holding Clips, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved clip for holdinga price ticket orthe like on the top edge of the back of a book and forother like uses, such for instance as holding a price ticket or thelikeon boots, china articles or any other small articles which are for sale.

My improved clip is very effectual for the purposes stated, and is ofsimple construction and cheap to manufacture as it is made in one piecefrom one thin sheet steel or other suitable sheet metal blank. Mysaidclip is so formed that it clips the back edge of a book or the edge ofany other article to which the price ticket is to be attached, and italso holds the price ticket in a slanting position convenient to be readand in such a way that almost the whole of the clip itself is hiddenfrom view behind the ticket.

I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawingsin which Figure 1 is a projected view of my said improved clip; Fig; 2shows the pierced sheet metal blank from which the clip shown in Fig. 1has been formed; Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of the clip in useon the top edge of the back of a book holding a price ticket or the likeand Fig. i is a, front elevation of the said clip holding a price ticketas in Fig. 3.

My improved clip is made from an elongated sheet steel or other suitablesheet metal blank 1, of the shape shown in Fig. 2, which is of anelongated form the main portion of the blank having one or more,preferably two. small projections 2, 3 at its bottom edge which, asshown in Fig. l, are bent upwardly almost against the lower portion 4 ofthe body part of the plate 1. thus'forming two clips adapted to receiveand hold the lower edge of a price ticket such as 5 as in Figs. 3 and 4.The body part ofthe blank is pierced with a U-shaped slot 6 extending tonearly the top edge 7 ofthe blank so as to leave a central downwardlyprojecting tongue 8 which, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, is bent outwardlyat 9 from the top'part of the blank and is then bent inwardly slightlyat 10 a short distance below the top and then across outwardly again sothat the lower edge 11 of the tongue projects beyond the body part 1which forms the back of the clip so that the back 12 of a book, or thethin edge of any article with which the clip is used, can, as shown inFig. 3, be inserted between the tongue 8 and the body part 1 of the clipso that the friction set up will be sufiicient to hold the clip inposition. The lower portion 13 of thebody part of the clip is bentforward at 14 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and the bottom part 4 of thisbent forward port-ion 13 with which the tongues 2, 3, are formed, isbent downwardly slightly so. that when the ticket 5 is placed inposition behind the spring tongues 2, 3, it will form about a straightline as in Fig. 5 from the tongues 2, 3, to the top edge 7 of the clip,

the lower part of the ticket 5 standing out slightly away from the bookor other article to which it is attached.

It will be seen that the clip above dethe price ticket orthe like 5'under the clip tongues 2, 3, so that the ticket will then be attached tothe clip, and then the clip can, as aforesaid, be attached to the topedge of the back 12 of the book or other article with which the clip isto be used, by merely inserting the said edge between the tongue 8 and"the back-10f the clip and pushingthe clip home as in Fig. 3.

The accompanying drawings illustrate what I consider to be the best wayof carrying my invention into practice, but it is to be understood thatmy invention is not lim' ited to the precise outline form of the clipshown, as it will be evident that this can be modified to some extentwithout departing from the nature of my invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent isA tag-holding clip formed from a shee metal blank having a U-shaped slittherein to form a tongue. said tongue-being bent rearwardly and thendownwardly, whereby a portion of the article to which the clip is springsecured may be inserted between the tongue name to ihis spooificufion inthe presence of two SHbSCIllHIlQ wltncsses.

LEOPOLD MYERS.

and the body portion of the clip, the body l portion of the clip beingbent outwardly and then downwardly at points intermediate I its ends,said clip being provided at its exi I lVitnesses:

lr-Lxnnns Bommmu Kn'rnny, THOMAS JOHN Rown.

a treme lower end with outwardly and upwardly turned reslllenttag-retannng means. In testnnony whereof I have s1gned my

